● Women on Women

City of Women - Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture (SL)

Common Zone (HR), Tiiiit! Inc. (MK), Outlandish Theatre Platform (IE)

State of the art

Patriarchal perspectives of history exclude women from the picture unless they were part of the power structure at play. Within the WoW project organisations, artists and activists have worked to share perspectives on women who made and have been contributing to equality in societies.

Description of the project

Women on Women is about the (re)presentation of women by women, past and present. The term ‘women’ stands for women, transgender and intersex people who identify as women. WoW aims to resist current neo-liberal and exclusionary political and populist trends by making quality art with women and presenting new narratives to new audiences. Narratives that leave people inspired and saying “wow”! The project focuses on gender equality from a feminist perspective, tracing the legacy of women particularly from a diverse and intersectional perspective. The project is trying out new models of solidarity and knowledge exchange between different communities with nominations, portraits, collective performances, city mappings, and artistic interventions in public spaces as well as by developing artistic programmes that reflect the cultural diversity of contemporary societies.

Revisit history through a gender perspective, giving visibility to women and female collectives that contributed greatly to society but have been overlooked by history.

Empowerment

Among other things, WoW literally changed the lives of 20 women from various minority backgrounds by offering them an opportunity to empower themselves through the project. It has broadened horizons and changed the perspectives of spectators through its artistic programmes.

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Tools for inspiration

WoW’s outputs can be used as history documents, teaching and leisure time tools (i.e. social card games, feminist tour guides, online maps). Wow contributed to visibility of living women through campaign-based awards. It also indirectly created a pool of female experts from all sectors, which can be used for reference by professionals when looking for expert speakers.

Contact

www.gendernet.info/en/womenonwomen www.cityofwomen.org/en/content/women-women Creative Europe Project Results 26